Fish report (10/24)

By News Herald staff

Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM.

Inshore/Piers:

Redfish around the Hot Water Canal are so thick that they are being caught on fly rods. If you don’t do much shallow water red fishing a guide can take you where the fish are and supply you with a fly rod if you don’t have one. Not all the bait has left the bay. One guide fishing in the pass was wearing out the redfish with big pilchards last weekend. He said they were sort of hard to find, but still a few around.

EastBayis producing some fine trout. Remember that the big-bellied trout are females. Just take a picture and return her to the water to spawn so we can have a new crop next year. After this weekend will be a good time to walk the beaches in the bay looking for fiddler crabs for pompano bait. A pompano will run over anything in its way to get to a fiddler crab. They are easy to keep alive for several weeks so you have a steady supply of bait.

The bridge at West Bay is where to go to catch sheepshead. Here again, fiddler crabs are the bait of choice.

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Redfish around the Hot Water Canal are so thick that they are being caught on fly rods. If you don’t do much shallow water red fishing a guide can take you where the fish are and supply you with a fly rod if you don’t have one. Not all the bait has left the bay. One guide fishing in the pass was wearing out the redfish with big pilchards last weekend. He said they were sort of hard to find, but still a few around.

EastBayis producing some fine trout. Remember that the big-bellied trout are females. Just take a picture and return her to the water to spawn so we can have a new crop next year. After this weekend will be a good time to walk the beaches in the bay looking for fiddler crabs for pompano bait. A pompano will run over anything in its way to get to a fiddler crab. They are easy to keep alive for several weeks so you have a steady supply of bait.

The bridge at West Bay is where to go to catch sheepshead. Here again, fiddler crabs are the bait of choice.